Pentagon admits: Remains of 9/11 victims dumped in landfill

[European blood]

The reports in November about the gross mismanagement of soldiers’ remains at the Dover Air Force Base, including the policy of dumping slain soldiers into a Virginia landfill, continue to develop today as new reports suggest the policy, which the Air Force has defended, was much broader than anyone thought.

The Virginia landfill which houses at least 274 soldiers

Now, records related to the period suggest that at least 274 US soldiers slain overseas were dumped in the landfill. Though the Air Force apparently never revealed the policy to top Pentagon officials at the time, this was their standard response to family members telling them to dispose of the remains “respectfully and with dignity.”

Air Force officials said there was “absolutely not” any intent to deceive the public or families about the disposal. At the same time they said they don’t intend to inform the families, saying it would be inconvenient to go back through the files from those years to get contact information.

Rep. Rush Holt (D – NJ), who had pressed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta about rumors of the practice in September, was interviewed on the matter by the Washington Post. His response, perhaps the first reasonable official comment when told about the policy, was “what the hell?!” followed by speculating that the Air Force “just don’t want to ask questions or look very hard.”

The Air Force does not appear to even have records of when the policy began, saying it was doing so in at least 2004, but couldn’t rule out that it began earlier. The company that took the troops to the landfill, MedTrace Inc. denied knowing that they were hauling dead soldiers, saying the containers were sealed and labeled “medical waste” by the Air Force. The landfill operator, Waste Management, says they weren’t informed of the policy either and would have rejected human remains for the landfill.

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/12/08/a...s-in-landfill/

[Dr. van Winkle]

Pentagon admits: Remains of 9/11 victims dumped in landfill

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon revealed Tuesday that partial, incinerated remains of some 9/11 victims that could not be identified were sent to a landfill.

The number of victims involved was unclear according to a Pentagon report, but it involved some of those killed when a terrorist-hijacked airplane struck the Pentagon, killing 184, and another crashed in Shanksville, Pa., killing 40, in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Pentagon released the report by an independent committee that was asked to examine practices at the military's mortuary at Dover, Del., the first stopping point for fallen troops coming home from war overseas.

"We don't think it should have happened," the committee chairman, retired Gen. John Abizaid, told a Pentagon news conference.

The panel was formed after an investigation revealed last November that there was "gross mismanagement" at the Dover facility and body parts had been lost on two occasions. After that investigation, news reports revealed that some cremated partial remains of at least 274 American war dead were dumped in a Virginia landfill until a policy change halted the practice in 2008.

Tuesday's report was explaining the old policy, and said: "This policy began shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, when several portions of remains from the Pentagon attack and the Shanksville, Pa., crash site could not be tested or identified."

It said the partial remains were cremated, then given to a biomedical waste disposal contractor who incinerated them and took them to a landfill.

The report did not say precisely where the remains ended up. Abizaid told reporters, "I don't know that there's a way to find out."

Source: CBSNEWS

In 2011 it was revealed that they've done the same with the remains of 274 U.S. soldiers. Alex Jones reported on it.

Pentagon Tosses Soldiers Remains in Garbage Dump

Pentagon cares so much about soldiers that gave their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq that they dumped their remains in a landfill. Hypocrites!

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ_sV-ZcSQs[/YOUTUBE]

[The Lawspeaker]

They could at least have made a mass grave for the unidentified victims and buried them in there. Like what Rotterdam did after 14-5-1940.

[Siberyak]

Our soldiers remains were also dumped in a landfill recently

[Piparskeggr]

The Military, like any over-large organization, has parts, which are malfunctioning at best.

This does not diminish the disgust I feel when members of a Military I was proud to serve in do things like this.

[Dr. van Winkle]

Our soldiers remains were also dumped in a landfill recently

Yeah, this is what happens when you make the ultimate sacrifice for the Zionists/NeoCons.

[Teyrn]

They could at least have made a mass grave for the unidentified victims and buried them in there. Like what Rotterdam did after 14-5-1940.

Or perhaps buried them on the site where the WTC used to stand, turned it into a federal memorial, and knocked down that mosque close by with a wrecking ball.

[Dr. van Winkle]

Workers ordered to chop up U.S. soldiers and dump bodies in landfill

Body parts belonging to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were routinely cremated and then dumped in a landfill site. For five years, between 2003 and 2008, staff at the Dover Air Force base mortuary, Delaware, disposed of parts that could not be identified or were later recovered from the battlefield. Family members were not told what happened to their relatives - and the company running the landfill site was not even informed what was being thrown away.

The scandal at Dover Air Force base began after complaints by three whistleblowers - civilians who worked as embalmers or technicians - who sparked an 18-month investigation by the Air Force Inspector General.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_h_OBb6cOw[/YOUTUBE]

[The Lawspeaker]

Or perhaps buried them on the site where the WTC used to stand, turned it into a federal memorial, and knocked down that mosque close by with a wrecking ball.

Exactly. And that federal memorial could even have been combined with these new towers: square downstairs would be the monument, the buildings the sign of "Hey b.....tches ! We're back!".

A place of commemoration and triumph in one. Now it is just... a triumph of international finance and multiculturalism over common human decency.

That mosque nearby should never have been built in the first place.

[Teyrn]

That mosque nearby should never have been built in the first place.

Slap in the face, especially if you know the Muslim tendency to build mosques/memorials at places of conquest.